Re: String manipulation

Assuming this is homework and you really want to surprise your teacher:

use Modern::Perl;
use Date::Parse;
use DateTime;

while (<DATA>) {
    my $dt = DateTime->from_epoch( epoch => str2time($_, '+0000'));
    say join ' ', $dt->month_name(), $dt->day(), $dt->year();
}

__DATA__
December 14th 2012
December 21st 2012
December 22nd 2012
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Output:

December 14 2012
December 21 2012
December 22 2012
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Re^2: String manipulation by BillKSmith (Monsignor) on Dec 15, 2012 at 15:41 UTC
Treating the data as a date rather than a generic string can have a huge advantage in avoiding unwanted changes. Bill	[reply]